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• The Leos Carax Collection | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Boy Meets Girl (1984): ...love without regrets... Leos Carax's (Pola X Lovers on the Bridge) brilliant feature debut follows the relationship of an aspiring filmmaker (Denis Lavant) who has just been left by his lover and a suicidal young woman (Mireille Perrier) who is also reeling from a failed romance. He becomes obsessed with her from the first time he hears her voice over an apartment intercom. Eventually they meet in person and embark on an affair that has disastrous consequences. Visually reminiscent of early French New Wave films and beautifully shot in black and white by Jean-Yves Escoffier (Nurse Betty Good Will Hunting) the film features some of the most striking night scenes of Paris. Night Is Young (aka. Mauvais Sang) (1986): Leos Carax's (Pola X Lovers on the Bridge) second film confirmed his status as one of the most talented young French filmmakers of his generation. Set a few years before the 21st century Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood) tells the story of Alex (Dennis Lavant) the teen-age son of a murdered criminal who is enlisted by two former associates of his father to steal a valuable serum for an AIDS-like disease. Alex's mission becomes complicated when he begins to fall in love with one of the associates' young mistress (Juliette Binoche) and he becomes involved in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a rival gang woman known only as ""The American."" Pola X (1999): An Erotically Charged Descent Into Madness Based on Herman Melville's 1852 novel Pierre: or the Ambiguities filmmaker Leos Carax (Lovers on the Bridge Mauvais Sang) presents an ambitious tale of one man's search for the truth in a vague world. A young successful author (Depardieu) is haunted by a recurring dream of a woman obscured in darkness. After discovering the identity of this mysterious figure he finds his life spiraling downward into a world of lies ambiguities and masquerades.

• Belle De Jour/Belle Toujours | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Belle De Jour : Undoubtedly Luis Bunuel's most accessible film Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine the glacially beautiful sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Cl''menti) and ignites an obsession that will court peril. In Belle Toujours his homage to Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere Manoel De Oliveira reunites the leading characters from Bunuel's erotic masterpiece the 1967 classic Belle De Jour. French cinema icon Michel Piccoli returns as Henri Husson - older and wiser but still every bit the sadist libertine who in the original both lusted after and callously taunted Catherine Deneuve's Severine to the very end. What exactly did Husson whisper into the ear of her paraplegic husband? Did he reveal Severine's double life as a high class prostitute? In Belle Toujours Severine is played by Bulle Ogier whom Piccoli's Husson first spots sitting a few rows away from him at a concert in Paris. A cat and mouse game ensures until Husson manages to gain her attention with the intention of revealing the secret that he alone can unfold. After years of lingering torment Severine is finally offered a chance to uncover the truth. As elegant as Severine as playful as Husson Belle Toujours is a lovely meditation about memory the persistence of desire lost opportunities and the power of stories.

• Belle De Jour 50th Anniversary | DVD | (02/10/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stunningly restored for the 50th anniversary, BELLE DE JOUR is an elegant and erotic masterpiece and undoubtedly Luis Buñuel's most accessible film. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clémenti), and ignites an obsession that will court peril. Buñuel uses diffused lighting, dark colours, and shadows throughout the film to temper the gravity and emotional impact of each uncomfortable scene. Left to our own imaginative devices, the result is a film that is highly unsettling, perverse, and inevitably tragic. SPECIAL FEATURES: The Last Script A Story of Perversion or Emancipation? Interview with Dr Sylvain Mimoun Commentary by Professor Peter W. Evans NEW Interview with Jean-Claude Carrière NEW Masterclass with Diego Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carrière NEW Trailer INCLUDES 6 ARTCARDS